On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I'm afraid I don't have any manuals for any of the MIPS chips just 3rd
> party ones SB1, RM7K and SR71000 - which is why I have some many
> odd questions. :>
Please feel free to grab a few from 'http://www.mips.com/Documentation/'
and 'http://www.mips.com/declassified/'. ;-) I have a few excellent IDT
manuals on their original CD-ROM as well. If they can't be downloaded
anymore, I may put them online at my site.
> Did some more research + phoning.. RM7K is definately documented to dump
> the write buffer on 'sync'. The RM7K guide even has an example (7.8.5)
> where it implies that sync also forces a write back of any dirty cache
> lines - gah! (Hard to belive though..)
If RM7K is always strongly ordered, I may code a workaround.
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